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Publisher: Bookouture
Published: November 13, 2024
Summary:
I keep all her secrets. She thinks she can trust me…
Cecilia has it all. The house on the beach. The cute figure. The beautiful baby. But she’s a long way from perfect.
She’s let me into her gorgeous house as her nanny because now she’s on her own, she needs a little help with her baby daughter Peyton. She barely notices me. But I see everything.
While Peyton naps, I rifle through her drawers and discover the dark secrets in her past, the threatening letter from her ex-husband.
It’s a shame that Cecilia doesn’t have my powers of observation. If she took some time, she might just recognize me. I’ve been following her for a while, after all.
If she knew who I was then I don’t think I’d be so invisible. And she wouldn’t be so surprised one morning when little Peyton’s cot is found empty…
My thoughts:
It’s no secret that I love Kaira Rouda’s books. I’ve read every single one of them and just love the characters she creates – they are the ones you love to hate because they are so deliciously devious and this latest one is no different, with some returning favorites and a few new ones.
This book is a follow-up to The Second Mrs. Strom, picking up a few years after that book ended. While it could be read as a stand-alone, I highly recommend reading not only The Second Mrs. Strom but also The Best Day Ever before reading this one because that is were you first meet Paul and really he is at the heart of all three of these books and then Cecilia comes next. And both characters are such crazy characters you need to follow their character arcs from the beginning to fully appreciate them, at least I think!
In this book, Paul plays more of a back seat, but he is still there…which I loved because he is undoubtedly my favorite psychopath ever and of course he shows his true colors once or twice throughout the book, even though he is in jail. This book is primarily Cecilia and Lizzie, the nanny’s story, and let me just say – it’s once again a story of matching wits.
What I love most about Kaira’s books is that she manages to craft characters that pull you in and then pull the wool out from under you. You are never sure whether you can trust them or not, they do such a good job of manipulating you. I loved how slowly the layers are peeled back from each of the characters here so that even if you thought you had things figured out, when a reveal would finally happen, it often did so at a moment you weren’t quite expecting.
This book was entertaining, twisty and completely binge-worthy. The characters get their due and I love that even though I figured some things out, there were still a few surprises I didn’t see coming. I really hope this is not the last we have seen of these characters…they are too fun to say goodbye to just yet!
Books in this series:
- Best Day Ever
- The Second Mrs. Strom
- What the Nanny Saw
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